Raijor Dal fields candidates on seats claimed by Congress as seat-sharing talks hits roadblock | India Information
2 min learnGuwahatiMar 5, 2026 07:16 AM IST
A day after the Congress introduced a primary listing of 42 candidates for the upcoming meeting elections, its ally Raijor Dal adopted swimsuit saying an inventory of 11 candidates.
These bulletins by each events have been made even earlier than the seat-sharing association – one thing that the 2 events have locked horns over – has been finalised. The lists additionally point out variations between the 2 events on seat-sharing.
Of the 11 candidates the Raijor Dal – a regional get together led by Sivasagar MLA Akhil Gogoi shaped within the aftermath of the 2019-2020 agitation in Assam in opposition to the enactment of the Citizenship Modification Act – one is pupil chief Rahul Chetry from the Margherita constituency in Higher Assam. On Tuesday, the Congress had additionally introduced its candidate for the Margherita constituency: Prateek Bordoloi, who’s the son of present Nagaon MP Pradyut Bordoloi. Pradyut Bordoloi had himself represented the Margherita constituency 4 instances until
Among the many Raijor Dal’s candidates can be a current joinee from the Congress: it has fielded Abdur Rashid Mandal, the incumbent three-time MLA from the Goalpara West constituency, who had joined the Raijor Dol two weeks in the past.
The get together has additionally introduced that that is solely its first listing of candidates. Its chief Akhil Gogoi doesn’t function within the first listing of candidates.
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